Back to the grind...
New term at uni, start of my MA course in Applied Translation Studies (MAATS). Nothing much to report here for the moment, really, as lectures only started today. First lecture was corpus linguistics, which I was pleased to note covered some of the stuff I did in France. Just goes to show that despite appearances, Paul Valéry University in Montpellier is useful for something, even if it is only assuring that I understand some of the content in this lecture!
Too soon to really judge the content of the rest of the course, it seems that they vaguely have their heads screwed on here, so I don't expect too much confusion. If nothing else, it seems that the facilities they have here are quite good (computers/software etc), even if they don't quite stretch to air conditioning (apparently it's not so bad in mid-winter). I'm glad to have got the hard bit out of the way (registration), thanks to Kim who stood with me in the 25 minute queue (which is really really short compared to the usual 2.5 hours!).
Apart from that I will be at work one day a week from now on (Tuesdays), which means that I still have most of the time free to learn how to use the millions of pieces of software we have to get t0 grips with! Other piece of good news is that I have booked flights to Paris for the 9th - 12th, so if anyone's gonna be there let me know and we'll meet up :)
1 comment:
Hi Mike ! Je suis désolé de ne pas pouvoir te répondre dans ta langue maternelle. Et, si je ne fais pas trop de contre-sens en te lisant, je crois comprendre que tout va bien pour toi et pour ta rentrée universitaire. Du point de vue linguistique, ton passage par P. Valéry n'as donc pas été inutile. C'est parfait !
On parlais de toi hier encore avec Marjorie : tu nous manques, amigo !
Et j'espère que tu iras plus au sud que Paris la prochaine fois !
Si tu veux quelques nouvelles de Montpellier, n'hésite pas à consulter mes blogs.
Felicitations pour ton diplôme et ton nouveau tatouage ;-))
Bye bye !!!
Yves
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